Citigroup has filled a senior sales role within its European markets business, which has seen a number of top-level changes in recent months.

Cedric Pauwels has been named as European head of credit and global securitised markets sales in addition to his current role as European head of rates sales, according to an internal memo seen by Financial News.

Pauwels fills a role left vacant by Conor Davis, who was promoted to head of investor sales for markets and securities services in Europe, the Middle East and Africa last month. Davis' promotion was among a raft of recent staff changes at the top of Citi’s European markets team.

Davis himself had replaced Leonardo Arduini, who was promoted to head of its markets business in the region in March. Arduini replaced Andres Recoder, who moved to New York to take up a global sales role in the bank’s markets and securities services business.

Pauwels joined Citi in 2008, having jumped ship from Lehman Brothers' European fixed-income division in the bank’s final days.

He was initially hired by Citi as head of UK, Benelux and central banks rates sales but was promoted to European head of rates sales in 2010.